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Why the boring architecture usually wins

Queues, boundaries and failure modes: distributed systems, databases, messaging, caching and scaling.

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    Sharding vs partitioning

    Two words used interchangeably in meetings, and the operational difference that makes them not the same thing at all.

    • Databases
    • Distributed systems

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